Required metadata for AMWG/CAM Datasets

Required:

-data_title: Short title of the data
-data_summary: Short paragraph about the data.
-data_creator: your name and email
-cesm_contact: Contact liaison or co-chair of AMWG
-creation_date: Full date of dataset creation
-update_date: Full date of most recent modification
-history: Updates to changes made to the data.
-data_script: script to generate data (will be available in the SVN repository ?)

Strongly recommended:

-data_description_url: A web-page with a description if available: This could be the climatedataguide webpage.
-data_source_url: The web page where the raw data can be downloaded
-data_reference: Full reference for the dataset if available
-data_doi: If doi of data exists
-climo_years: Year 1-year N of the climatological averaging period.
-data_mods: Any special substantive (non resolution) modifications that were made to the input data set purely for the purpose of using it in CESM.

The more info the better. The script to reproduce data is important. It doesn't need to be in good shape. Just what you used is enough.